Kincraft: the making of black evangelical sociality
Contextualizing the Social Dimensions of a Black Evangelical Religious Movement -- On "Family Roots" and "Godly Family": Creating Kinship Worlds -- Moving Against the Grain: The Evangelism of T. Michael Flowers in the Segregated US South -- Black like Me? Or Christian like Me? Bl...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Religious cultures of african and african diaspora people
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Evangelical movement
/ Blacks
/ Spirituality
/ Ethnic identity
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| Further subjects: | B
Race Relations
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Evangelicalism Social aspects (United States) B Race relations ; Religious aspects ; Christianity B United States B Black Theology B Evangelicalism ; Social aspects |
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| Summary: | Contextualizing the Social Dimensions of a Black Evangelical Religious Movement -- On "Family Roots" and "Godly Family": Creating Kinship Worlds -- Moving Against the Grain: The Evangelism of T. Michael Flowers in the Segregated US South -- Black like Me? Or Christian like Me? Black Evangelicals, Ethnicity, and Church Family -- Scenes of Black Evangelical Spiritual Kinship in Practice -- Bible Study, Fraternalism, and the Making of Interpretive Community -- Churchwomen and the Incorporation of Church and Home -- Black Evangelicals, "the Family," and Confessional Intimacy. "In Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality Todne Thomas explores the interiority of black evangelical community life-a religious constituency often overshadowed by a white evangelical majority and the common equation of the "black Church" with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Informed by her fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church association in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Thomas argues that church members co-create themselves as spiritual kin through the conceptual and performative labor of kincraft. Thomas attributes this kincraft-church members' constructions of one another as "brothers and sisters in Christ," "spiritual mothers," "spiritual fathers," "spiritual children,"and "prayer partners"-to religious and diasporic influences"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478010657 |